Depeche mode : Jacob Taubes between politics, philosophy, and religion / edited by Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink, Hartmut von Sass.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kopp-Oberstebrink, Herbert, editor.

Sass, Hartmut von, 1980- editor.

Series:

Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 32.

Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; volume 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taubes, Jacob.

Jewish philosophers--Germany--Biography.

Jewish philosophers.

Jewish philosophers--United States--Biography.

Germany.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"The philosopher and ordained rabbi Jacob Taubes (1923-1987) is one of the most important figures on the 20th century German intellectual scene and beyond. As one of the first academic jet-setters, he had been the holder of the founding chair for Jewish Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and was professor at Columbia University. Taubes combined traditional Jewish thinking with contemporary issues in philosophy such as theories of secularization, the relation between politics and religion, and the hermeneutics of time, more specifically messianism, apocalyptic thinking, and gnosticism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink & Hartmut von Sass

1. Taubes's Jüdischkeit, or How One Led a Jewish Life in Post-Holocaust Germany / Martin Treml

2. Depeche Mode : Jacob Taubes and His Style / Hartmut von Sass

3. Jacob Taubes, the Jewish Hegelian / Agata Bielik-Robson

4. Jacob Taubes' Messianism and Political Theology after the Shoah / Elettra Stimilli

5. The Boredom of "Pure Philosophy" : Jacob Taubes, Academic Philosophy, and the Challenge of Theologico-Philosophical Intervention / Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink

6. Between Fascination and Compulsive Schmittian Reading : The Traces of Walter Benjamin in Jacob Taubes's Writings / Sigrid Weigel

7. From Heaven above and Hell below : On the Social Scientific Task of Translating 'Gnosis' / Christian Zolles

8. Gnosis and the Covert Theology of Antitheology : Heidegger, Apocalypticism, and Gnosticism in Susan and Jacob Taubes / Elliot R. Wolfson

9. Taubes and Secularization / Gabriel Motzkin.

Notes:

"The volume in front of you goes back to a conference held in the fall of 2017 at the Ludwik Fleck Center for philosophy of science at the Collegium Helveticum in Zurich; it was a cooperation with the Research Project "Jacob Taubes in Context" located at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin."--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004505094

9004505091

OCLC:

1284919247